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Edmund Lee / AdAge:
Yahoo Buys Associated Content for $100 Million — Deal Will Shore Up Portal's Content Offerings, Help Produce Low-Cost Media — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Yahoo has acquired startup Associated Content for slightly more than $100 million in a deal that gives the portal new technology and a new strategy for producing low-cost media.
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GigaOM, Yahoo!, alarm:clock, The Associated Content Blog, Search Engine Land, ZDNet, paidContent, The Social, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Silicon Alley Insider, Erictric, Gawker, Fast Company, Trends in the Living Networks, AdExchanger.com, Epicenter, DailyFinance, Agence France Presse, Pulse2, Computerworld, WebProNews, PE Hub Blog, ReadWriteWeb, BoomTown, VentureBeat, Mashable!, Beet.TV, Tech Trader Daily, DealBook, techeblog.com and silicontap.com
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
What Is Yahoo Thinking? Buying Associated Content Opens Up A Whole Can Of Worms
Yahoo / Yodel Anecdotal:
Welcoming Associated Content to the Yahoo! Family
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Google Enterprise Blog:
Putting email in context with Gmail contextual gadgets — Since launching the Google Apps Marketplace in March, Google Apps administrators have deployed integrated third party apps to more than one million users, and today we're excited to build on this momentum with the launch of a new Gmail API …
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Xobni Blog, ReadWriteWeb, WSJ Blogs - WSJ, TNW Google, Tech Sanity Check, Google Watch and Google Code Blog
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Rosa Golijan / Gizmodo:
Newest iPhone 4.0 Beta Implies That AT&T Is Finally Ready For Tethering — Yes! Yes! Yes! Those sounds you heard moments ago are the horrified screams of your nearest AT&T towers. Why? Because iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4 brings us a new option in the settings menu: Tethering.
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Rosa Golijan / Gizmodo:
Here's What's New In iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4 — Oh yes! iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 4 is out and we're tearing it apart to find out what's new so that you don't have to risk your iPhones. Here's what we've discovered so far. Updating. — The default home screen is different.
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Fast Company, Boy Genius Report, MacStories, SlashGear, BlogsDNA and Phone Scoop, Thanks:sebatinsky
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Tension Building At Facebook As Staffers Challenge Zuckerberg's Approach To Privacy — Facebook executives have been “hunkered down” for days trying to figure out what to do about the latest privacy backlash, the WSJ's Jessica Vascellaro says. — Some executives appear to disagree …
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Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Facebook to Launch “Simplistic” Privacy Choices Soon — Reacting to the latest privacy backlash, Facebook will be rolling out new “simplistic” privacy options for its users in the coming weeks, according to Facebook head of public policy Tim Sparapani. — “Now we've heard from our users …
Sid Murlidhar / Facebook Blog:
Fast and Free Facebook Mobile Access with 0.facebook.com — Today, we are launching another way for people to access Facebook anytime, anywhere: 0.facebook.com. 0.facebook.com is a new mobile site that includes all of the key features of Facebook but is optimized for speed.
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TechCrunch, VentureBeat, paidContent, pluGGd.in, 901am, IntoMobile, ReadWriteWeb, Reuters, AppScout, Mashable!, Erictric, Inside Facebook, ClipperHouse, PC World, Silicon Alley Insider and MobileBurn.com, Thanks:atul
Federico Viticci / MacStories:
Twitter for iPhone Goes Live — Last night we noticed that Tweetie 2 was pulled from the App Store, and it made us think that the official client called “Twitter for iPhone” would come soon. Well, Twitter for iPhone is now live in the App Store, just follow this link. (it's still propagating in the App Store)
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TechCrunch, BlogsDNA, TUAW, Erictric, IntoMobile, TNW Apps, 9 to 5 Mac, EverythingiCafe, Electronista and The Blog Herald, Thanks:macstoriesnet
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
LifeLock CEO's Identity Stolen 13 Times — Apparently, when you publish your Social Security number prominently on your website and billboards, people take it as an invitation to steal your identity. — LifeLock CEO Todd Davis, whose number is displayed in the company's ubiquitous advertisements, has by now learned that lesson.
Facebook Press Releases:
Facebook and Zynga Enter Into Long-Term Relationship — Facebook and Zynga announced today that they have entered into a five-year strategic relationship that increases their shared commitment to social gaming on Facebook and expands use of Facebook Credits in Zynga's games.
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GigaOM, Digital Daily, blogs.ft.com, Download Squad, Boy Genius Report, Gawker, TechCrunch, The Social, Joystiq and SecondShares
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Central To The Facebook-Zynga Deal: Credits
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Technologizer, PC Magazine, Silicon Alley Insider, NBC Bay Area, PE Hub Blog and Inside Social Games
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google To Launch Amazon S3 Competitor ‘Google Storage’ At I/O — Amazon's cloud storage services are going to be getting another major competitor this week: Google. We hear that this week during its I/O conference, Google will be announcing a new service that is a direct competitor with Amazon's S3 cloud storage.
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Moonwatcher, Google Code Blog, Erictric, ITworld.com, TNW Apps, Maximum PC, Electronista and ZDNet, Thanks:auralab
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Is Firefox Headed Towards A Massive Decline? Its Co-Founder Thinks So — Quora is a great place to find answers about products from prominent people involved with them. It's also a great place for those prominent people to disagree, publicly. That's what's happening right now in a thread about the future of Firefox.
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft sues Salesforce.com, alleging patent infringement — Microsoft is filing suit this afternoon against Salesforce.com, alleging that the San Francisco company's customer-relationship management service violates nine of its patents. The complaint, in U.S. District Court in Seattle …
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BetaNews, Beyond Binary, VentureBeat, ReadWriteWeb, eWeek, Computerworld, The Microsoft Blog, TechCrunch, ZDNet, The Register and Xconomy, Thanks:nealrichter
Eric Zeman / InformationWeek:
Sprint Says Pre Didn't Work Out, Wants iPhone — Sprint's Chief Financial Officer Robert Brust recently assured investors that the nations' third-largest provider of wireless services has seen the worst of its problems and things are looking up. Brust also accidentally ate his foot …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
A Look Back at Steve Jobs' 2003 Stock Options Swap Reveals $10 Billion Opportunity Lost — MarketWatch takes a look at “what might have been”, examining Apple CEO Steve Jobs' decision to accept a March 2003 offer from the company to exchange his existing stock options for new ones …
Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Twitter expects hundreds of advertisers — (Reuters) - Twitter, the rapidly expanding microblogging service, plans to have hundreds of advertisers using its new ad system in the fourth quarter as the company ramps up plans to become a self-sustaining, profitable business.
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple scaling Final Cut Studio apps to fit prosumers — Apple's Final Cut Studio suite of video post production apps is getting a significant makeover to better target the software to the mainstream of Apple's customer base rather than high end professionals.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
X-Plane for Officejet? HP to Put Palm's webOS in Printers — That Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) plans to use Palm's (PALM) WebOS in smartphones, netbooks and tablets is self evident. That it intends to use it in printers as well? Well, that's a bit of a surprise, although given the size of HP's printing business, it shouldn't have been.
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Erica Ogg / CNET News:
HP quarterly revenue up 13 percent to $30.8 billion
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Tech Eye, Engadget, Datamation, Pulse2, Crave, Tech Trader Daily, eWeek, PC World, The Register, Boy Genius Report, Digital Daily, MobileCrunch, internetnews.com and Electronista
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Google to fight government if AdMob deal blocked — (Reuters) - Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said on Tuesday his company is prepared to fight the U.S. government “very hard” if regulators block the search leader's acquisition of mobile advertising firm AdMob.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Playdom Acquires MMORPG Publisher Acclaim Games — Playdom is continuing its shopping spree of game developers. The gaming giant is acquiring social game publisher Acclaim Games today. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. — Acclaim has built a name for itself in the casual and MMORPG gaming space.
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PR Newswire, VentureBeat, Inside Social Games, Mashable!, USA Today, paidContent and Pulse2
